Ask a sommelier to describe the allure of a favorite glass of vino and you might hear about notes of various fruits, woods, spices, or even a whisper of petrichor (yup, that’s one of our faves, too).

There’s nothing quite like taking a dip in the ocean in the summertime. Sand, sunshine and the smell of salt water are practically staples when the weather gets warm. The only thing that’s unpleasant ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

Oceans are salty because rivers carry minerals like sodium and chloride from rocks on land, gradually adding salt over ...

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Cliff Ross notes that in stories and studies on human-caused climate change, most of the emphasis is on a rapidly warming world that is expected to only get hotter and hotter. That's fair enough, he ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland.

Nik Callow has received salinity-related funding as an employee of The University of Western Australia and previously when working for the WA Government Department of Food and Agriculture. He is a ...

Satkhira is one of the areas most affected by salinity, where both surface and groundwater are increasingly saline.

The William & Mary study examined salinity levels in certain areas of the Chesapeake Bay and how they relate to the kind of ...